Seek your happiness from God's grace and bounty; he will not fail to give it you. Make Christ your rock, and you have a sure foundation. December 19, 1637."

[TO HIS FAIRE MISTRESS.]

"Do not reject those titles of your due, Which Nature's art hath stiled in your face ; The name of Faire onely belongs to you,

None else that title justly can imbrace;

You, beauties' heire, her coate sole spotlesse weare,
Where others all some markes abatement beare.

""Tis not their cheeks touch'd with vermillion red, Stain'd with the tincture of enchanting skill':

Nor yet the curl'd devices of their head,

Their breasts display'd, their looks fram'd to their will,
Their quick-turn'd eye, nor all their proud attire,
Can make me their perfections to admire.

"Others are faire, if not compar'd to thee;
Compar'd to them, thy beautie doth exceed;
So lesser starres give light and shine we see,
Till glorious Phoebus lifteth up his head";

"Faire was formerly synonymous with beauty. See Shakspeare and Dryden; or the following passage in an old tract, entitled Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie:

"I saw straight

The sweetest faire of all faces;
Such a face as did containe

Heaven's shine in every vaine."

So Addison, in his Cato:

""Tis not a set of features or complexion,

The tincture of a skin that I admire, &c."

Sir Henry Wotton's celebrated compliment to the queen of Bohemia will occur to the poetical reader.

And then, as things ashamed of their might, They hide themselves, and with themselves their light. "Since Nature's skill hath given you your right,

Do not kind Nature and your selfe such wrong;
You are as faire as any earthly wight;

You wrong yourselfe if you correct my tongue :
Though you deny her and your selfe your due,
Yet dutie bids me Faire intitle you !"]

EDWARD SOMERSET,

EARL OF GLAMORGAN,

AND

MARQUIS OF WORCESTER,

APPEARS in a very different light in his public character, and in that of author: in the former he was an active zealot; in the latter a fantastic projector and mechanic-in both very credulous. Though literary character be the intention of this Catalogue, it is impossible to give any idea of this lord merely from the sole work that he has published, it being nothing more than, scarce so much as, heads of chapters. His political character is so remarkable, that it opens and makes even his whimsicalness as a writer less extraordinary. In short, this was the famous earl of Glamorgan, so created by Charles the first, while heir-apparent to the marquis of Worcester. He was a bigotted Catholic, but in times, when that was no disrecommendation at court, and when it grew a merit. Being of a nature extremely enterprising, and a warm royalist, he was dispatched into Ireland by the king. Here history lays its finger; at least is interrupted by controversy. The censurers of